Dante's Pass – Dante's Pass loop from Santa Maria del Giudice

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Dante's Pass – Dante's Pass loop from Santa Maria del Giudice

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Dante's Pass – Dante's Pass loop from Santa Maria del Giudice

01:36

5.44km

150m

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Easy hike. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: September 24, 2026

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1.67 km

Passo Croce

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Dante's pass

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2.96 km

View over San Giuliano Terme and Pisa

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3.24 km

On the Pisan Mountains that divide the plain of Pisa from that of Lucca, there are many paths suitable for MTB and especially trekking.
One of these has a particular historical-literary value, because it would have been traveled by no less than Dante Alighieri: it is precisely the Passo di Dante, who in the Comedy at canto XXXIII of the Inferno refers "al monte per che i Pisan veder Lucca non ponno." (ie the mountain that prevents the view of a city from the other one.) Above the stone slab that bears these verses, there is a bust of the Poet.
Naturally this pass, that connected the Lucca side with the Pisan one, was well known long before Dante: from the Neolithic to the Roman age it had been traveled by people of all origins, but from the Renaissance onwards it was known just as "Dante's Pass".
The tour up to the Pass, which is located just over 200 m above sea level and offers beautiful landscape views of Pisa, can be started from S. Maria del Giudice or S. Giuliano, with distances that vary depending on the starting point and if you go to on foot or by bike.

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3.25 km

Passo di Dante

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Among these paths there is one that takes its name from Dante Alighieri, the most important and well-known poet of our country. It is the “Passo di Dante”, a beautiful panoramic point from which you can see Pisa and the sea as well as continuing to Santa Maria del Giudice entering the suggestive forest that will accompany us for a long and easily passable journey.

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3.27 km

Dante's Pass

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From Santa Maria del Giudice it is quite a climb, but that is not a problem with the e-bike. The way down to Pisa is only partially suitable for bicycles. Wonderful view of Pisa and the sea - a magical place, even today ...

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